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UNITED STATES PATE T 'FFICE.

CHARLES H. Gunner, or WALTHAM, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES B. FULLER, or

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TAG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,033, dated January 3, 1888.

Application filed November 16, 1885. Renewed December 10, 1887.

the following is a description sufficiently full,

clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this-specification, in

I which- Figure 1 is an isometrical perspective viewof my improved tag partially folded; Fig. 2, a vertical transverse section taken on the line x a: in Fig. 1 with the side flap represented as folded; Fig. 3, a plan view representing the sealing-flap attached to the end flap, and Fig. 4 a plan view representing the sealingflap attached to the side flap. i

. Like letters of referen ceindicate corresponding parts in'the different figures of the draw- 1ngs.

My invention relates to that class of merchandisetags which are provided with pockets or envelopes for holding the bill of the goods or article to which the tag is attached, and with a guard or socket for the end flap; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a simpler, cheaper, and more desirable article of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use. i The nature of the improvement will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation, its extreme simplicity rendering an elaborate description unnecessary.

In the drawings, A represents the body; B, the end flap; O, the side flap; D, the sealingflap, and E the guard, all of these parts being integral or made in one piece.

A pocket or envelope, 2, is formed in the tag by folding the side flap, 0, down onto the body A and firmly securing one of its ends to said body by the eyelet 'm. A hole, 01, is

formed in the free end of the flap B, and a Serial No. 257.511. (No model.)

corresponding hole, f, in the guard E, these holes being adapted to register with the eye- 5o let at when the tag is folded, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. The inner face of the flap D is coated near its edge with cement, mucilag r some other adhesive material, b,which,when moistened, enables said flap to be readily sealed or cemented to the flap B or O, as the case may be. The inner face of the flap Bis also coated near its end with adhesive mucilage or ce1ncut, as shown at r, to enable said flap to be sealed or cemented to the flap O. I do not,

however, confine myself to the use of the 1nucilage r on the flap B, as this may be omitted, if desired.

In the use of my improvement the bill is inserted in the pocket or envelope z, and the mucilage or adhesive material on the flap D moistened, and said flap turned down and sealed or cemented to the flap O. Theflap B is then turned down onto the flaps D G and sealed to the flap O, and the guard E turned down over the end of the flap B, after which an ordinary string or attaching-cord is passed through the holes f cl and eyelet m, and the tag secured to the goods or article to which it is to be attached, in a manner which will be readily obvious without a more explicit description. The end of the flap G adjoining the flap B being left free to be turned up at one of its corners, as shown in Fig. 1, enables the bill to be readily inserted in the envelope without injuring the same, and when the flap D is turned down and secured to the flap O, and the flap B passed under the guard E and secured by the cement r and attaching-cord, the envelope will be closed with sufficient security for all practical purposes.

Instead of sealing the flap D to the flap 0,

as described, it may be sealed to the flap B,

if desired, thereby doubly securing said lastnamed flap in its folded position.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- A tag envelope consisting of the body A,

provided with an eyelet-hole, a folding gummed guard-flap, E, at one end of said near its outer end, and the sealing gummed flap D, attached to the opposite side of said body, substantially as described.

CHARLES H. GURNEY.

body, provided with an eyelet-hole registering with the hole in said body when the flap is folded, the loose flap 0, attached to one side of said body and connected therewith near 5 one end by an eyelet the folding gumnied ex- XVitnesses:

tension-flap B, attached to the opposite end of O. A. SHAW, said body and provided with an eyelet-hole L. J. WHITE. 

